Calgary residents sound off over airplane noise

It was a full house of angry people at Marlborough Community Centre Thursday night.
Hundreds gathered to sound-off about airplane noise.
As Sarah Offin reports the Calgary Airport Authority is looking at solutions, trying to calm growing concerns about the new airport runway.

The police were on hand at Thursday’s meeting after tempers flared and what Fisherman called a “fiasco” at the last meeting in January.

The Calgary Airport Authority (CAA) said they’re listening to concerns and trying to come up with solutions but there’s no easy fix.

“Airplanes are regulated to turn away from each other when they are flying. It’s just a regulated requirement,” Jody Moseley with the CAA said. “But what we need to do is look at any opportunity to get them as straight in and as straight out as possible.”

Moseley said they’re looking into the possibility of flying higher and getting planes out of the way quicker when they do have to fly over homes.

“I will say, I will believe it when I see it,” Sailer said.

“We’re not satisfied with the answers because we believe – based on what other cities have done – there are solutions to this problem,” Fisherman added.

Dozens of residents voiced their concerns and questions in a question and answer period following a presentation by the CAA.

Among those stepping up to the mic was a retired pilot Cal Cavendish – who highlighted the predicament of a growing city, with a poem: